There's a lie embedded in AI

I asked Alexa to explain an answer

they told me truth is a sliding scale

not true or false but somewhere in between

it's all based on inferencing, you see, they said

those that programmed Alexa, neither all male, or female 

"What's inferencing?", I said.

"Using statistics to compute," they said.

"How's that?", I said.

"When chatbots don't know, they infer."

In other words, they guess

lies propagate inference after inference,

and just like Mark Twain said Disraeli said:

there's lies, damn lies, and then there's statistics.

There's a lie at the heart of AI

that's almost true, but still a lie, 

embedded in AI.

Richard M Russell (C) Dick Russell

                          2023